Two friends from Fenton scored gold medals in golf at this year's Special Olympics USA Games, but it's their lifelong friendship that is truly the win.
The historic one-hundred-year-old clubhouse at Oakland Hills Country Club was engulfed in flames Thursday afternoon and suffered extensive damage. Oakland Hills has two golf courses, including the South Course, which has hosted six U.S. Opens and three PGA Championships, the 2004 Ryder Cup, and the 2002 and 2016 U.S. Amateur.
Imagine building a golf course so good, it's regularly ranked as one of the best in America. But what if you built that course in a part of Michigan that's too remote for many golfers to seek it out.
If you've every played golf, chances are you understand frustration. Professional golfers, you would think, understand they are held to a higher standard than a duffer like you or me hitting a shot off to the right and then wrapping the club around a tree.
The golf enthusiasts of Michigan should be excited to get back out to see all the professional players making their way to the Great Lakes State this summer with several tournaments returning after a one-year hiatus.
There's an old saying about the measure of a man is the company he keeps. If the same goes for golf courses, then Augusta's Stoatin Brae is keeping some pretty heady company.